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Free (Public Domain) Agatha Christie Books / Novels / Short Stories

We will be keeping a list of these works of Agatha Christie as they enter the public domain and therefore become free to the public as their copyright expires. We'll update them with links to read the story and to audio books we find that are also free.

Characters Crossovers

Agatha Christie's characters do appear in other adventures, so don't be surprised if you pick up a book and find that it is actually part of multiple series at once.

  • Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries

    Not Public Domain

    • N or M? - 1941
    • By the Pricking of My Thumbs -
      1968
    • Postern of Fate - 1973


    Ariadne Oliver - Not Public Domain

    • Cards on the Table - 1936
    • Mrs. McGinty's Dead - 1952
    • Dead Man's Folly - 1956
    • The Pale Horse - 1961
    • Third Girl - 1966
    • Hallowe'en Party - 1969
    • Elephants Can Remember - 1972

    Superintendent Battle

    Not Public Domain

    • Cards on the Table -1936
    • Murder is Easy -1939
    • Towards Zero -1944


    Colonel Race

    Not Public Domain

    • Cards on the Table - 1936
    • Death on the Nile - 1933
    • Sparkling Cyanide - 1944

    Assorted Not Public Domain

    • The Sittaford Mystery - 1931
    • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? - 1934
    • And Then There Were None - 1939
    • Death Comes at the End - 1944
    • The Mousetrap: A Play - 1947
    • Crooked House - 1949
    • They came to Baghdad - 1951
    • Ordeal by Innocence - 1958
    • Destination Unknown - 1966
    • Endless Night - 1967

    Miss Marple

    Please note there are different suggested reading orders due to the short stories. Since we
    are tracking we are just tracking the dates they were published.

    Starting with the list of Novels / books and then short stories
    separately.

    Not Public Domain

    1. The Murder at the Vicarage - 1930
    2. The Body in the Library - 1942
    3. The Moving Finger - 1943
    4. A Murder is Announced - 1950
    5. They Do it with Mirrors - 1952
    6. A Pocket Full of Rye - 1953
    7. 4.50 from Paddington - 1957
    8. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to
      Side - 1962
    9. A Caribbean Mystery - 1964
    10. At Bertram's Hotel - 1965
    11. Nemesis - 1971
    12. Sleeping Murder - 1976

    Miss Marple Short Stories

    • Thirteen Problems - 1932
    • The Regatta Mystery - 1939
    • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
      - 1950
    • The Adventure of the Christmas
      Pudding - 1960
    • Double Sin and the Other Stories -
      1961
    • Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two
      Other Stories - 1979
  • Hercule Poirot
    Books / Novels / Short stories - Not Public Domain

    • Black Coffee (1930) - Becomes public
      domain 2026
    • Peril at End House (1932) - Becomes
      public domain 2028
    • Lord Edgware Dies (Thirteen at Dinner)
      (1933) - Becomes public domain 2029
    • Murder on the Orient Express (Murder in
      the Calais Coach) (1934)
    • Three Act Tragedy (Murder in Three
      Acts) (1934)
    • Death in the Clouds (Death in the Air)
      (1935)
    • The ABC Murders (1936)
    • Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
    • Cards on the Table (1936)
    • Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client)
      (1937)
    • Death on the Nile (1937)
    • Murder in the Mews (1937)
    • Appointment with Death (1938)
    • Hercule Poirot's Christmas (A Holiday
      for Murder / Murder for Christmas) (1938)
    • Sad Cypress (1940)
    • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (An Overdose
      of Death ) (1940)
    • Evil Under the Sun (1941)
    • Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect)
      (1942)
    • The Hollow (Murder after Hours) (1946)
    • The Labors of Hercules (1947)
    • Taken at the Flood (There Is a Tide)
      (1948)
    • Mrs McGinty's Dead (Blood Will Tell)
      (1952)
    • After the Funeral (Funerals Are Fatal)
      (1953)
    • Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
    • Dead Man's Folly (1956)
    • Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
    • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
      (1960)
    • The Clocks (1963)
    • Third Girl (1966)
    • Hallowe'en Party (A Haunting in Venice)
      (1969)
    • Elephants Can Remember (1972)
    • Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
    • Curtain (1975)
Links to Free Public Domain Agatha Christie Books , Novels and Short Stories